Spot Welders has brought editor Livio Sanchez aboard its roster. Sanchez’s exploits span commercials, music videos, documentaries and independent films.
Sanchez, who edited the much heralded original Budweiser ‘Wassup’ spot, began his career at Mad River Post, where he first worked with now Spot Welders’ editor/partner Dick Gordon on a Miller Lite package. From there, Sanchez’s career progressed with his joining The Whitehouse and then Final Cut, before Filmcore (now Beast) in 2007. Over the years, he has amassed various awards including a Cannes Gold Lion as well as honors from the AICP Show, AICE Awards, MVPA Awards and D&AD.
Most recently Sanchez cut Wilderness Downtown a HTML5 film by director Chris Milk, for the band Arcade Fire. Sanchez regularly collaborates with Milk on music videos and commercials. The editor has also worked with such other notable directors as Kathryn Bigelow, Scott Hicks, The Hughes Brothers, Janusz Kaminski, Stacy Peralta, and Marc Webb. Sanchez’s credits include such brands as Nike, Google, Anheuser Busch, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, ESPN and PBS.
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Martin Scorsese On “The Saints,” Faith In Filmmaking and His Next Movie
When Martin Scorsese was a child growing up in New York's Little Italy, he would gaze up at the figures he saw around St. Patrick's Old Cathedral. "Who are these people? What is a saint?" Scorsese recalls. "The minute I walk out the door of the cathedral and I don't see any saints. I saw people trying to behave well within a world that was very primal and oppressed by organized crime. As a child, you wonder about the saints: Are they human?" For decades, Scorsese has pondered a project dedicated to the saints. Now, he's finally realized it in "Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints," an eight-part docudrama series debuting Sunday on Fox Nation, the streaming service from Fox News Media. The one-hour episodes, written by Kent Jones and directed by Elizabeth Chomko, each chronicle a saint: Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, John the Baptist, Thomas Becket, Mary Magdalene, Moses the Black, Sebastian and Maximillian Kolbe. Joan of Arc kicks off the series on Sunday, with three weekly installments to follow; the last four will stream closer to Easter next year. In naturalistic reenactments followed by brief Scorsese-led discussions with experts, "The Saints" emphasizes that, yes, the saints were very human. They were flawed, imperfect people, which, to Scorsese, only heightens their great sacrifices and gestures of compassion. The Polish priest Kolbe, for example, helped spread antisemitism before, during WWII, sheltering Jews and, ultimately, volunteering to die in the place of a man who had been condemned at Auschwitz. Scorsese, who turns 82 on Sunday, recently met for an interview not long after returning from a trip to his grandfather's hometown in Sicily. He was made an honorary citizen and the experience was still lingering in his mind. Remarks have... Read More